Friday, August 27, 2010

ePubs from Pages

eBooks are so exciting! The ability to carry around one device such as the iPad or Kindle with hundreds of books at the ready is amazing to me.

Recently I have jumped on this new innovation with both feet and have created a few ePubs for Apple's iBook app on the iPad. I was using Adobe's InDesign software to create high-quality ePubs. This was, to say the least, time consuming and tedious but worthwhile to see once the final product was complete. However, I was anxiously awaiting the day when Apple would give Pages the ability to export as ePub. Well, the wait is over!

Just today I ran software updates on my Macs and behold, Pages has ePub export ability! I tested it out and found it worked quickly, smoothly and created a high-quality ePub. There are a few more options within Pages now which I will review and a few tweaks to my ePubs but all-in-all, I think is marvelous. 

So if you have a Mac and use Pages (http://www.apple.com/iwork/pages/) for documents, notes, etc...you can now create an ePub and put them on your iPad.